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Viacom Can Take Your Stuff and Copyright It

Posted in Stupid by Evan at 2:34 pm
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Valleywag is making up BS stories reporting that Christopher Knight made a commercial that was featured on VH1’s “Web Junk 20″ which is cool right? Because that sort of exposure is great! Well, the story gets sticky from there. Christopher uploaded a clip of the show showing his commercial onto YouTube and Viacom has made sure it was removed because, get this: it was infringing upon their copyright. To make matters worse, the show never got permission to use the clip in the first place! Is Viacom really full of maniacal megalomaniacs or something?

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One Response to “Viacom Can Take Your Stuff and Copyright It”

  1. chad says:

    Viva La Revolution!!!

    fuck big business :D

    no but seriously… I’d let my lawyers deal with this one, seems like he could get a nice big chunk of change for this kinda crap.

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